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Painted a thin even coat of epoxy onto one panel, being careful to avoid getting any onto surfaces which touch the gun, or the hole for the grip screw.

The best technique I found for compressing the media down into the epoxy was to pile it on good and deep, then put pressure downward evenly with my flattened hand. I was also careful to pack it inward on all four sides.

The epoxy won't be dry enough to let me dust the excess off and screw them down until tomorrow night, but here's a few teaser shots of the finished grips.

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That is an awesome job. The stock grips sure are thick. Like cz shadow grips without the swell.

That's why I didn't buy $100 grips and did this instead. How guns fit you is highly individual - picking this thing up for the first time felt like it was custom molded to my hands. So I decided to give them traction, and keep that shape.

The fact that this cost about $25 was a nice bonus over Henning or EGD grips!

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Outstanding! I have been considering this for a while, even though working on my grip has had phenomenal results. I shot a friend's Accu-Shadow in order to zero it for him, and he had something similar. It was very nice.

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The sweet spot is leaving the back smooth surface bare and grinding down the textured portion until it's smooth. Then when you build it back with jb/grit it's the same factory dia which is still pretty big.

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Dryfire tonight was interesting. The bladetech body for my BOSS hanger showed up shockingly quickly, so I was able to begin relearning my drawstroke and practice a few loads.

Here's the holstered blaster, and a comparison of the magazine & magwell sizes on the Stock III and my M&P 9L. Reloads are tougher to stick, but that's because the grip angle is off a few degrees and I need to relearn where to present the gun to eat the incoming mag consistently.

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I did something similar. Great friction, but after a month or so I did smooth out the thumb channel on left side penal, because the friction there is so much when I rotate to reach the mag release during reloads that my strong hand thumb got bloody (the skin on the inside of knuckle). Your hand may not require rotation for reloads, so this may not be a problem for you.

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I did something similar. Great friction, but after a month or so I did smooth out the thumb channel on left side penal, because the friction there is so much when I rotate to reach the mag release during reloads that my strong hand thumb got bloody (the skin on the inside of knuckle). Your hand may not require rotation for reloads, so this may not be a problem for you.